Time expiring on Sunday or holy day.
Time in case of security for costs.
Facts or cir. cumstances
suit.
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time: namely, Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter week, Christmas Day, and the day before and the day next after Christmas Day. 270. Where the time for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding expires on one of the days last mentioned, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwards, that is, not one of the last-mentioned days.
271. The day on which an order that a plaintiff do give security for costs is served, and the time thenceforward until and including the day on which such security is given, shall not be reckoned in the computation of the time allowed to a defendant for putting in his answer. Supplemental Statement
272. Facts or circumstances occurring after the institution of a suit, Occurring after may, by leave of the Court, be introduced by way of amendment into the petition or answer (as the case may require) at any stage of the proceedings, and the Court may make such order as seems just respecting the proof of such facts or circumstances or for affording all parties concerned leave and opportunity to meet the statements so introduced.
Change or transmission of interest or liability,
Power of Court,
Power of Court.
Enlargement or abridgement.
Further enlarge. ment.
In what cases,
Death of Party or other Change
273. Where, pending a suit, any change or transmission of interest or liability occurs in relation to any party to the suit, or any party to the suit dies or (being a woman) marries, or the suit is in any other way rendered defective or incapable of being carried on, any person interested may, on motion ex parte, obtain from the Court such order as is requisite for curing the defect, or enabling or compelling proper parties to carry on the proceedings.
But it shall be open to any person served with such an order within such time, not exceeding fourteen days, as the Court in the order directs, to apply to the Court by motion to discharge such order.
Adjournment
274. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to defer or adjourn the bearing or determination of any suit, matter, proceeding, or applica- tion, for such time and on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
Amendment
275. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to order or allow any amendment of any petition, answer, notice, or other document whatever, at any time, on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
Power of Court as to Time
276. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to enlarge or abridge the time appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
277. Where the Court is by these Rules or otherwise authorized to appoint the time for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, --or to enlarge the time appointed or allowed for that purpose by these Rules or otherwise,-the Court may further enlarge any time so appointed or enlarged by it on such terms (if any) as seem just, provided that the application for further enlargement is made before the expiration of the time already allowed, and that such further enlargement appears to the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to be re- quired for the purposes of justice, and not to be sought merely for delay. Guardian for Purposes of Suit
278. Where on default made by a defendant in answering or otherwise defending the suit after due service of the petition, it appears to the Court that he is an infant or person of weak or unsound mind (not so found by inquisition) so that he is unable of himself to defend the suit, the Court
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